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...midnight explosion last week rocked the three-story brick district headquarters of the U.M.W. in Pikeville, Ky., incidentally shattering a huge portrait of the late union leader John L. Lewis that hung on the wall. The strike has produced one death, hundreds of injuries and more than a thousand episodes of rock throwing, smashed windshields and punctured tires. Gunfire has been commonplace. Snipers killed a nonunion coal-truck driver, Hayes West, 35, in a convoy crossing Coeburn Mountain in late May. Gunfire wounded Miner Judy Mullins, 40, in the hand in July while she was picketing in Canada...
...time--for one day only, Sept. 29, 1983--there was a perfect production of A Chorus Line. To celebrate its new eminence as Broadway's longest-running show, Bennett assembled some 330 Chorus Line veterans, radically rethought every number and provided a legendary theatrical event. Alas, only a few thousand people saw that show; millions will be able to see this hand-me-down version. Robert Frost said that poetry is what's lost in translation. All A Chorus Line lost here was its soul. Hey, kids, put the show back onstage. --By Richard Corliss
...intelligence community has thousands of them: deskbound clerks, translators and minor functionaries who spend years in decidedly unglamorous jobs in which they are privy to information more valued than their self-esteem. Last week, in separate cases, three of those faceless employees were charged with peddling American secrets to foreign agents. The harvest was apparently random; the only thread was that all were, in the words of one former intelligence official, "tawdry little people who sell their souls for a few thousand bucks." But their apprehension brought to ten the number of spy arrests this year--a number that seems...
...players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that . . . he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted a thousand!" --Ben Jonson...
...situation is, we wouldn't be ready to take responsibility for a thousand years." AMAR MANA, 27, Iraqi private, about when Iraq's army will be ready to assume responsibility for internal security...